Mrs Kioski

I feel like it was just last year and we were about to celebrate our first Christmas with a brand new baby Emma. Now it’s a year later and she is running all over the place. I just gave a bag of winter clothes to a new baby who lives below us. It seems like it was just yesterday when we were receiving clothes from other older babies. It’s fun to watch Emma grow over the past year, but I kind of miss it when she was really tiny. On the plus side, I bought her the cutest Christmas dress from Target. It was on sale for $12 and I bought some really cute dress shoes to match it. I’m sure that she will love it.

My boss mentioned to us the other day that certain deodorants with aluminum zirconium have been known to cause breast cancer. I threw mine out because it has that in it. Mike’s Gilette was fine though. I’m not worried that I’ve been using it, but I’d rather be safe than sorry from now on.

cracker
book (we were at Miim’s and Papa’s house and whenever she crawled towards to the books she kept repeating “book book book”)
mom
mama
dada
daddy
yeya (most likely rhea)
bottle

this is what we have!

So I went to the dentist for the second time this year. I hadn’t gone for a year and half before the first time this year so I had to schedule a second cleaning (and a third next month). I honestly wouldnt recommend waiting a year and a half to go without a cleaning, your teeth can get pretty bad over that amount of time. None of the cleaning hurt, it was just tedious and annoying. I brush and floss my teeth every day and they still needed the extra cleaning! I never really understood the exact importance of brushing your teeth until today; if you don’t brush your teeth and get regular cleanings, you better start now. I was talking with the dentist and she told me that often people come in who have not been flossing their teeth. Apparently it stinks when she does it for them. Ew. I don’t think that I want to be a dentist. I also got 8 sealants on my right side of my mouth (i’ll get the rest next time). Apparently they have started putting sealants on the teeth before your molars. That’s fine with me, I don’t want cavities!

On a side note, Emma rolled over from her back to her tummy yesterday! She doesn’t do it very often; she would rather roll over onto her side. So, she can do it if she wants to.

I think that the one thing I miss the most about television is watching Star Trek: Voyager from 4-6 each weekday. Other than that I honestly don’t miss tv that much. I seem to get a lot more done without the distraction. I have also been able to play more FFXII recently.

Since we aren’t paying a cable bill right now Mike and I decided to buy the third season of Everybody Loves Raymond. This is a show that every married couple must watch. It is so cleverly hilarious! Mike and I often finding ourselves looking at each other and saying “that is exactly how married life is!” Of course we do not live right across the street from Mike’s parents (and do not have 3 kids) but there are still many similarities. I think that best similarity is the fact that Mike is the jokester in the family (just like Ray). I am very much like Deb because I am always find myself acting like the mom.
We also borrowed the 5th season of The Simpsons from Rhea and Erik. Emma likes it so much that we have gone through the season twice already. I think that this season is my favorite season that I have seen so far.

Emma has started sleeping less during the day now. Boy do I miss those days when she would take 2 hour naps, now they last about half an hour. It seems that her oatmeal is giving her more energy to stay awake with. She needs constant entertainment when she is awake and keeps her parents very busy. If Mike and I want to get any time to ourselves we have to stay up late into the night. I cannot wait until I can make her go to bed at 9 every day. For now her bed time is at 11. I think it would be easier for her to go to sleep if she had her own bedroom. It is hard to fall asleep in the room where all the action is. Well, we wont be in this tiny apartment for much longer.

I always promised myself while growing up that I would not raise my kids in the same way that i was raised. I would not force religion on my children. Of course they are going to be raised in a Christian environment, but i cannot and will not force them to believe the same things that i do. That is just not the way to raise your children. In fact, you really shoudnt treat anyone that way. My father always told me that some day i would see things his way and realize that he was right. unfortunately for him, the older I became the more i began to realize how wrong my parents were. They always said i would be grateful for the way they raised me, and yes, I am grateful that I was well taken care of as a child, but I was told so many lies as I became older that in the end I am dissapointed in the way that I was raised. I was kept in a little box away from the world. In an effort to protect me, my parents shut me off from the rest of society. I think that the movie Finding Nemo says it best when Nemo tells his dad that if he doesn’t let anything happen to him, then nothing WILL happen to him! It is hard to realize that your children grow through the good and the bad experiences, but that is just the way life is. Eventually you have to let your children go so that they can learn for themselves what the world is like. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the fact that I am Emma’s favorite person. I love that she wants to snuggle with me and sleep on me every day. It is a great feeling to be able to take care of someone like that. But in the end she will become a grown, independant woman. Yes, if she is anything like her mom, she will definitely be independant.

Hi people,
It’s great to finally be here. LJ was just getting too boring so i thought i’d try something new. I’m sure I’ll be posting here quite a bit!